art.earth closed in January 2023 • this is an archive site

art.earth was a family of artists dedicated to making art that looks out to the world and believing that art enriches the world and makes it a better place.

You can read our message of farewell and explore the archive –
a treasure trove of events, happenings, exhibitions and other stuff that art.earth did with its wonderful family from 2016 to 2023. Visit our YouTube channel.

You can still purchase our publications. Books while stocks last + eBooks.

You can also read some of the many responses to our farewell message.

A huge thank you all who participated and otherwise engaged with us. The world still needs you!

Imaginary landscapes and more…

A podcast from thefamiliarstrange.com Find it here In this month’s panel discussion, Jodie (1:14) tells us about documents with agency: “Ideas just get up and grow legs, and they run away with themselves.” (Trigger warning: this segment mentions the recent Royal...

First Friday, October 1

Zoom link If you are one of the small number unable to use the Zoom link button please email us for the Zoom link. First Fridays are our regular monthly community gatherings during which we hear about current work from a wide range of artists and those interested in...

A Liquidscapes interview with Amy Sharrocks

An interview by podcaster David Clarke about Liquidscapes and the Flow Partnership’s Water Summer School that was happening in parallel with Liquidscapes at Dartington this June. An acoustic journey: The River Killers explores the state of our rivers and how we should...

First Friday June 1

Join us on June 1 for First Friday As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk, this month by Alain Pezardsnell. Alain says: My current approach to creativity is very instinctive and I...

An ethnography of global environmentalism

a new book by Caroline Gatt Based on nine years of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation and of activists' work and life. The book presents an account of the daily life and the ethical...

Trees: a wood wide web (BBC Radio 4)

On the very same day we held our Programming Meeting for Evolving the Forest, BBC Radio 4 featured a programme with Peter Wohlleben, Kathleen Jamie, Ruth Pavey and Gary Fuller. Trees may have vibrant inner lives and certainly appear to have individual personalities,...

Developing Intercultural Competencies

This is the culmination of a 2 year project with UNESCO in which this intercultural methodology was successfully piloted in all 5 UNESCO regions around the world (Thailand, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, Austria, and Tunisia) as a way of developing and actually practicing...

New books from Wrights & Sites

from Michelle Smith... Wrights & Sites are four artist-researchers with a special relationship to site, city, landscape & walking. You probably know their Exeter Mis-Guide and A Mis-Guide To Anywhere. Now they (Cathy Turner, Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti...

Language, Landscape & the Sublime | June 2016

June 29 and 30 2016 at Dartington, June 30 at Sharpham House This two-day symposium drew together artists and thinkers from a wide range of disciplines to explore ways in which landscape –– and the ways we represent it –– connects deeply to our lives and underpins our...

In Other Tongues @ Dark Mountain 2

IN OTHER TONGUES: THE MIGRATION HABITS OF STONES by Alyson Hallett 12th August, 2017 It’s August, 2001. Six months since my nan, Hilda Hallett, died. I loved my nan. She lived in a terraced, red-bricked house in Bridgwater, Somerset. We used to watch the wrestling on...